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Im hill harper. Thanks for watching. Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper, australias Great Barrier reef is the Worlds Largest Marine Habitat and one of the natural wonders the world. But its now in its seventh Mass Bleaching during events in 1998, which means the warming waters around australia are killing the coral, turning this vibrant ecosystem into an underwater graveyard this is just one of several Climate Crisis thats plagued australian recent years. Theyve been devastating wildfires and massive floods that are made parts of the country uninhabitable. And has decimated the population of native species like koalas. Cnns ive and watson has been reporting on the Climate Disaster in australia for years. And he recently traveled back to see the evolving threats firsthand and how people are both contributing to the crisis. And trying to find ways to fix it a Once In A Lifetime experience a chance to walk hello, on a Desert Island in the middle, the Great Barrier reef all around me Turquoise Blue Water as far as the eye can see im on the edge of one of the most beautiful Marine Habitats on the planet. Planet. A Natural Wonder Of The World Underwater Jungle teeming with Colors Movement Life but on this journey off the coast of australia, i learned about the death and destruction being caused by Human Activity both on land and under the water the reefs not fine unhealthy, its definitely feeling a lot of stress. The temperature of this water is rising. That result, coral bleaching and dying what is happening now in our oceans is like wildfires, underwater. Were going to have so much warming that were going to get to a Tipping Point and we wont be able to come im back from that growing up, i could never imagine one day visiting australia. It was an exotic place. On the other side of the planet, a land of koalas and kangaroos boasting natural treasures. Unlike any other place in the world decades later, im here enjoying this vibrant place. But also facing a frightening reality. Its ratcheting up. And more and more people are being affected in normal lives my job distracting for things fires, storms, floods and unprecedented level unprecedented scale. Humanity is being threatened at a rate which im not sure we really understand. Australia is a country, a continent on the front lines of Climate Change and it is threatening communities and its most iconic species to get to australias Kangaroo Island drive straight south from adelaide until you hit the ocean and then board a fairing. It brings me to this remote place thats rugged sparsely populated, and wild and it does feel a little bit like the end of the world and thats partially true because from here for the next several thousand miles, its open ocean until you hit antarctica surprisingly, for an island named after kangaroos, my team and i initially had a hard time finding the animals. Thats shape after a de with no luck, we learn kangaroos prefer to come out at sunset when its cooler. But thats also a dangerous time for these animals koko, his mom is probably hit by a car. Guy goes mama satan kill ball car. Yeah the small team at this Wildlife Center helps raise some of these orphaned animals by hand. Either already including pearl, who seems pretty fun of humans is this a little bit like holding a child, but pretty fuzzy kid. And the other part about this is the the for a really saw there are few things sweeter than cuddling a koala my teammates couldnt wait for their turn its cute. But then we learn the real reason perl is here so he had some burns stories and she still has lingering scar tissue there. We cant see obviously see the pods of hands and feet, but the leather was pretty badly burned on there as well four years ago as a tiny joey pearls survived apocalyptic forest fires, which raged across australia. Australians now call it the black summer i cannot either the severity on the style and intensity and the duration of the 2024 hours it was nothing else locket in any recorded history in australia australias extreme climate makes it more vulnerable to bush fires and floods and Climate Change is exacerbating these next patrol disasters barry trail, a Volunteer Firefighter and environmentalis t, is seeing this firsthand going to get more than, more often im going to get more floods more often if its a wet year, its going to flood morph to draw, youre going to get how to five. Thats, thats just the physics of it. The fires destroyed thousands of homes and wiped out billions of animals we had local people showing up here with 30, 40 animals in their car that they picked up on the way here or that theyve gone back to check their farm and id found you know, it kangaroo with its legs noted offer essentially its did you in the staff here have to euthanized jagan hundred koalas . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was those leaves a last thing scarf issue those scars still raw for many survivors. And for the families of the 33 people who died that summer im ivan. How are you doing . Justin lang meet me at the stretch of highway with a fire killed his father, dick and his brother clayton the fire. Caught them as they were driving home after helping protect a friends farm from the blades and his glass from the vehicle . Yeah. Sorry. Thats the best window. We find pieces of their truck still hear four years later, who thinks you could get burned to death and driving on a road . Exactly. I pulled it off the rights either out of the way but yeah, the car combusted the whole cow was on fire with fire jumped from trees and the vegetation into the middle of a highway, ember tech its hard to imagine a bushfire engulfing a moving vehicle on a highway until you see footage like this nigel the smoke so thick, it turned day into night were asking through the front. We still zero visibility the fires even created their own Weather System fired tornadoes ripping across open farmland. A frightening example well, this power of the blaze for the islands small population, it meant all Hands On Deck of a splitting malts on between jumping on a truck and i dont fall groundwork and, and being here and do them all off work. So there were dies during that fire where there was nothing anyone could do the weather was too severe and the fall while i was supposed to heart this shows the area that was burned in 2019 and 2020. That fire burn 49 of the islands total land area, 49 , and Kangaroo Island is one of the biggest islands Third Largest island in australia burned. Yeah the inferno destroyed almost all of Kangaroo Islands, Flinders Chase national park. And yet today, i find evidence of some remarkable rebirth four years ago, this was a burned out moonscape that all of the greenery was destroyed. And you can still see the remnants of bushes and trees that are still charred from the 2020 fires. Its hard to imagine how any of the wildlife could have survived that inferno but look four years later at the regrowth greenery. As far as the eye can see but the same cannot be said of the islands wildlife. And that includes kangaroos and koalas we estimated that there were probably 50,000 animals before the fire on kangaroo Kangaroo Island, which has a population of about 5,000 people. Thats right. So a lot more koalas and people after the fires, it was probably more like five to 10,000. So it had a major impact on quality. We head into the fall forest. These scientists are tracking whats left of the islands. Koala population using Satellite Radio Collars to pinpoint their location oh, yeah, there it is. Our first discovery was unfortunately pretty bleak pull little guy but a few miles down the road, we have more luck for this one here oh, yeah, one there. Wow and one here. And then theres another one in the tree just over here hi, yeah. Hi, there yeah. They weigh and check a female named sunny before setting her free. Were very grateful to sunny and shes free to go id like to introduce you to sunny. This is a female koala she has been captured three times by the team here. And just had her Satellite Tracker removed. Take a look over here part of the tree. Shes standing on still bears scorch marks from the previous fires here, which are believed to have killed off more than half of the population of the wildcard wallace on Kangaroo Island this animal is a symbol of this country. Its an iconic species is it in trouble . Its very much in trouble highly endangered. It may, while were seeing it going locally extinct in different populations on the east coast populations decimated by disease and habitat loss from logging and wildfires that are Ravaging Australia all of those catastrophic Climate Change impacts are directly affecting Koala Populations in australia. Do you think this fire was a product of client Climate Change . I think ultimately it was an Australian Government report concluded the same harder to measure the impact on people like justin leg still morning after the black summer fires killed his father and brother is expected from braga who . Was only 44, but no man is trauma is an oxime i certainly expect him to be around for a few more years yeah its nothing sounds like something land you have nausea, heartburn, and Pepto Bismol Coates and suits for fast relief when you need it, most to give your teeth a dentist clean feeling, start with a Round Brush Head ad power, and youve got oralb round cleans better by surrounding each tooth to remove 100 more flack for it. A superior clean oralb brush like a pro necessary no neither is missing your daughters competition do payroll with pay com employs do their own payroll. So you dont have to miss your daughters big day time to shine get pay com and make the unnecessary unnecessary how could anyone possibly know that every single one of these pistachios is guaranteed to be wonderful by reading right here. Wonderful pistachios or the pistachios are wonderful, but the word wonderful on them. 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Im scuba certified my guide is professor jody romer, a reef scientist at James Cook University how many species did receive bit of marine life just now . Well im a phish person. Theres over 1,500 species of fish here on the Great Barrier reef. How many do you think we saw . You can see them all today, but how he a species a its an underwater rainforest. Its the most diversity, seven on the planets above. Or underwater, i would argue and its been my inspiration for my entire career were diving in february, the peak of the australian summer its like bathwater unclear night yeah, were were in sort of lowered mid 90s Fahrenheit Jodie repeatedly shows me coral thats Turned Bone White the reefs not fine a lot of curls that were at very stable it is reaching at something thats already been overrun with algae a close, its a pretty depressing site coral basically being cooked and killed by unusually warm water what we see beneath the surface confirmed several weeks later by the Australian Government as scientists and told us that were facing a Mass Bleaching event this is the seventh Mass Bleaching event since 1998 experts once argued this habitat was too big to fail and the Great Barrier reef is the larger continuous reef system on the planet 2,300 kilometers long and it is literally mindboggling when you think that many, hundreds of thousands of species are there on this, this ecosystem . This is huge. Im into size of italy if you want a repair this ecosystem once youve damaged it its going to take 1,000 years australia is experiencing eight global recordbreaking marine heatwave this extreme heat is causing what some scientists are falling the worst coral bleaching the state has ever seen we come here to this furman how the coral reefs off the florida peninsula are coping with unprecedented ocean keith in 2023, this Weather Pattern caused a massive die off of coral off the coast of florida what happened in florida or the Eastern Caribbean in the last couple . Sort of shocking. And were seeing similar thing happening at the moment on the Great Barrier reef ove hoeghguldberg, basically predicted this a quarter century ria go in this 1999 article, he wrote thermally triggered coral bleaching events will increase in frequency and severity in the next few decades corals are not keeping up with the rate of warming and they may be the single largest casualty of business as huge War Greenhouse policies the article sparked a nasty backlash did you anticipate Death Threats and response to an Academic Research paper . No, not at all. I okay. What whats going on here you put it in front of you how reduct . Hilus have your predictions from 1999 followed . That model. We are pretty close to what we predicted would happen has happened as Carbon Emissions drive Climate Change the Warming Temperatures of the worlds oceans. Keep breaking records not more than about five to 10 at this rate, over predicts only a fraction shin of the worlds coral. Will still be alive 25 years from now youre talking about a mass die off yeah as this moves past coral reefs, bleaching so this is whats fascinating and quite terrifying is that the number of disasters that are happening is increasing on a decade by Decade Spaces B that are huge forest fires in many parts of the world, or massive floods . Some of australias most recent floods the port city of cans, a main in gateway to the Great Barrier reef river on december 18, 2023, the worst reigns in decades flood parts of the city the whole streak was a river, including the home of Thomas Herridge and trini hussein lead you water up to here when we left by yes. I okay. Girls, can we had one age record high floods, a growing threat across a string . Well, yeah. Sunday on the whole story, the debate over Transgender Athletes that i believed they needed to sacrifice Skiing Brands in order to swim. 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Thats what were dealing with lowering kalisa sees me for watching my head, which is ducking i just didnt see hey, possible that it was going to to this stage February 2022. Liz moore, the worst flood in its history returns this small city into a lake in a region already prone to flooding. The scale of this disaster catches authorities by surprise. Hi at least four people die thousands need to be rescued. Among them, kate stroud. This road, was this your escape route . Yes. So once we were rescued from our Kitchen Window by the gentleman on the jet ski, we were on top of the water, which we then had to duck beneath faced power lines at. Its peak. The waters hit a level of 14 meters more than 47 feet. From here. That looks very high, but im gonna give you some additional context. This is part of the levy that is supposed to protect the town of liz moore from the wilson river look over the wall and there you see the Normal Heights of the wilson river so thats the level that the flood came into this building in that flood kate is an artist and longtime resident of liz more this is your house . Yeah. Was my house. Was your house . I dont live here anymore. Why dont you want to move back in because he cant move back into a place where, you no way that that can happen again in the early hours of february 28 floodwaters fill their backyard. What get the rain doesnt stop the water just keeps coming. Kate takes shelter in the attic. Wed saved everything we possibly could says no point in being in toxic water that was freezing cold and we hadnt slept for 24, 48 hours. A stranger on a Passing Jet Ski rescues kate, some other surreal things that made it really feel like it was Out Of This World was that they were cattle on the top of some of the shop and their the care on the room. In the a grueling cleanup, more than 70,000 tons of debris collected from the main Shopping District alone. What was the state of your home . And you saw it again completely covered in a thick sludge of rigueur martin silts the filth, so bad, returning residents dont know where to begin two years later, lins more streets appeared tidy and clean but look closer and you see homes and businesses boarded up, casualties of the flood steve craig could only been liz moores mayor for a matter of weeks when the 2020 flood hit it ruined his home and business how is the community doing now . Two years on all you know, its its still very fresh in everyones mind its fractured their community somewhat. A lot of Air Residents that live on the floodplain have have moved due to necessity as far as finances or emotional impact more than 1,500 liz more residents, many of whom could not afford insurance still live in temporary Government Housing did you have to be rescued . Yes, i did. A nearly drowned 75yearold peter roy spent hours trapped on the roof of his house. If it was fixed up, would you want to go back to it . No. Why is that no, none. Wouldnt want to live in a flood zone. Hello. Again. It was that terrifying yeah, absolutely. Authorities failed to predict the severity of the February 2022 flood in liz more its really about the climate becoming unstable some urban planners want australia to stop building on vulnerable flood plains do societies have to consider giving up on some locations. I do think that that is one of a range of things that has to be in toolbox do you think a flood like this could happen again yes. Id be naive to say itll never happen again. Despite the threat, the mayor of liz moore is doubling down. He opened a new business not far from the river this is my heart supplies that of i know and i love it i dont want to leave anywhere else. Im if im not prepared to invest in the city, how can i ask anyone else . One flight again, we just start knowing when and we dont know how deep cage isnt taking any chances. Shes found a new home on Higher Ground found outside of the city. Theres a lot of people that are still really struggling even with the sound of rain the future of some disaster prone some communities may be determined by how much trauma and hardship residents are willing to take so its the playoffs, great teammates trust each other. Were gonna do a trust falls, stand up, trust. What . You sent me up, doc. I told him he was a Dummy Ag One Works By Making Foundation On Nutrition Easier combining vitamins, probiotics, and whole foods stores nutrients into one comprehensive formula. 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What did you get that 13 seat Cessna Caravan lying an hour for brisbane far out over the Pacific Ocean we spot a tiny patch of green theme ringed by a halo of coral reefs i repeat, get the beautiful Lady Elliot Arm with the first arma up a start of you pick the Great Barrier reef this is literally the start of this massive Marine Habitat right here. The Worlds Largest berry starts right here landing here is tricky may have to deal with the short run my, with crops weight, and its quite poppy the runways only 600 good, 50 meters long thats down. He got it. Got it. Yeah. Wow. Welcome. Thank you. That was incredible. My pilot is peter gash hes not just a pilot he basically owns the Island Leasing it from the Australian Government and running in eco resort here with his family we might have lots work my wife and i married. I went and learned to fly airplanes so i could bring people here peter wastes no time taking me out to see the islands underwater. Menagerie you look as comfortable underwater as you are in the sky. Hey, ivan, i came here 40 years ago when underwater and absolutely fell in love with the place. And here could you not . Youve seen what its like down there . Never swum next to a sea turtle before its incredibly, they just kinda glide along and they dont really seem to care that a human is kinda gap a spring and flipping around next to them because humans have not bothered the animals for a long time since its been made a protected zone. Because humans dont interfere with just looked that dont touch. We dont spear, we dont fish the wildlife is completely comfortable with us these waters regularly visited by manta rays and residents the dolphin named well bolts meanwhile, above the surface, the island teams with seabirds at its peak. Its in excess of 200,000 others hi one island and this tiny little long and its crazy to think that peter gives me a tour what are these tags for example, lets say ive water storage, okay. But i said we do sell night the water one store there we keep about twin, ten and 12 days of water. How much of the energy . Can used fly the resort comes from solar power. Honore, hundred percent under the same, we use all of the solar power Lady Elliot Island didnt always look like this in the 19th century settlers mind the island for bird guano, leaving the place mostly barren, hard coral you can almost count the trees that were here in 19 absolutely. There was almost nothing this is a man might cross everything you see here. We plaintiff i couldnt walk here 15 or 20 has got so rough here now, weve got natural Soil Magnificence is this from your Compost Knowledge from the trace. And the bird thats prb dead birds and trees and march. This is naturally forming. This is the Island Regrowing again thank you all and brought this about three millimeters a year peters trying to run a profitable Tourist Resort and sustain this remarkable Little Island human import pose the problem. Niger with a bit of help from humans, a bit of human foot is now recovering. Thats rewarding and what it tells me these, if we can recover this small place, this little circle, we can recover this big vice his whole final than we live on every, single one of us can make a difference its not hopeless peters. The message of hope is inspiring, but its tempered by something we see underwater i made the reef sharks and sea turtles. Theres coral bleaching just wait enough to worry this islands greatest enthusiast while we do see is more and more bleaching normal stress on the corals theyll hot water, the water warming environment, changing and bringing up the water to me thats a big risk. The damaged coral here, part of the Mass Bleaching event caused by the marine heatwave on the Great Barrier reef, a phenomenon that could threaten the entire ecosystem on this journey, ive seen how nature can rebound this island is an example of a place that was barren rock 30, 40 years ago has regrown a forest. But theres another reality thats been hammered home so even this story three here on this tiny island is vulnerable to the much larger pattern of Climate Change that were seeing around the Globe A Florida Man is hospitalized, infected with anthrax next, this became the bureaus number war crime to solve how it really happened with jesse l. Martin. Next, ill cnn with the freestyle libre three system. Know your Glucose Levels no fingers, six needed. All with the worlds smallest thinnest Sensor Manager diabetes with Work Competence and lawyering once dry for free at freestyle libre. 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Follicle craig comedy is the ceo of the port of new castle it is not illegal to sell coal he says new castle cant afford to stop selling coal. Even though he knows it hurts the environment i would literally devastate this business, devastate this town, and people would lose their jobs. Well, thats the australian economy writ large australia is the second largest Coal Exporter in the world as well. Well as one of the Largest Global suppliers of natural gas on this trip across australia, ive been talking to victims of fires and floods that were in intensified by Climate Change but this coal and Gas Producing country also contributes to the Fossil Fuel Emissions driving the problem we also need to do something about Climate Change. The current Australian Government says, its committed to reducing Greenhouse Gases weve legislated a pathway to make zero by 2050, its why were working hard to reduce Carbon Emissions in australia. Do our part in the global effort to reduce Carbon Emissions and to make sure that we transitioning australia two more and youre able energy to get to our target of 82 Renewable Energy by 2030 but just last year, the same government approved opening for new coal mines what i want people to know about australia is that way, one of the Worlds Largest Fossil Fuel Exporting nation and thats been a position that weve helped quite some time. Its not one that anyone should want. Zack scofield is an environmentalist and resident of new castle hes activist group rising tide has staged protests briefly stopping one of these trains in another waterborne Sit In Scofield was briefly arrested while Blockading Coal Ships in the port do you want this shutdown . Not immediately, not overnight thats not going to help anyone in newcastle, lauren, australia, but what we do need is no new Fossil Fuel Projects to be approved because thats just going to make the problem worse. As you can say to die, weve got so much sun, so much are wind. Weve got a perfect opportunity to be we kind of renewable superpower im surprised to hear both the environmentalist and the cold port Executive Calling for a gradual green energy transition. We have been pursuing a strategy of diversification. So what algol is while we have strong coal, will build all these new businesses in clean energy Jake Containers and whatnot youre running the Worlds Largest Coal Exporting Port from what im hearing from you, you would like it to no longer be that now youre gonna me in trouble with the coal miners i want new businesses as big as call to the di whenever that day is, that cold declines cation point, what appeared to be giant toothpicks, bly stacked up on the grounds of the port of new castle look whats in storage here at the worlds biggest coal the court giant blades for wind turbines. And there is symbol of the hope that one day therell be a transition from fossil fuels to run doable Energy Around 10 of australias energy comes from renewable sources like wind farms. This is not somewhere you climb up to. If youre afraid of heights, im 92 meters up more than 300 feet on top of this wind turbine. And the wind is howling through here the entire structure is actually we swaying in the wind. And this wind farm alone can power some 75,000 homes the wind is just ripping through here. Is this a good day for your business . This is a great day. Thats for sure. This is a really great windows. I think what weve seen today is as a glimpse with what the future is going to be there appears to be consensus on the need for change. The question is, when in this still happening coal mines, which is unconscionable, milis is a dangerous substance that is having a huge impact on Humanity Australia is absolutely capable of shifting away from fossil fuels and emergency speed and scale. Because we have an abundance of Renewable Energy their trajectory that were on now is really quite scary unprecedented is almost an everyday event because the climate is changing so were fighting a losing wall with a fight for our survival and our kids in the end doesnt this all come down to our children this is a Citizen Science program. Why did i mothering would mean . Hello, and welcome to the raped. All right, very schoolchildren welcomed by a cultural officer from gun, gun g, one of the aboriginal groups that are considered traditional gentle owners of this stretch of the reef theres about seven, eight groups that called the bradbury home. They all have stories on how the came to be as it is today the kids are here to take photos of the Great Barrier reef and submit them to a growing database. Thats trying to better monitor this sprawling Marine Habitat these kids are clearly very comfortable way out in open ocean im here over the reef and just seeing them diving in swimming and enjoying the scene. Its its really remarkable you guys arent nervous out here in the open ocean why is that what was the cool . Coolest animal you saw today watches shop or the turtles . So you think you guys will be able to snorkel and dive in these reefs when you theyre adults but not this right this chart lists we change are they endanger . Yeah. Definitely rachel on the world and agent this sobering reality makes my own visit to the Great Barrier reef bidders sweet i just completed my first di on the grade barrier reef. Who was a spectacular experience the neon colors amazing. And im so lucky really just hope my daughter gets to see this and experience this one day, the way i just do habitat in communities, in parallel. But if theres anything this Journey Across Australia Has showed me, is that there is so much here worth fighting for the Great Barrier reef, isnt the only Reef Suffering from Climate Change . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association recently now its wearing a mask, Global Bleaching event which means more than half the worlds coral reefs across 54 countries and territories are being affected by the woman waters. Thanks for watching the whole story